Jon Courtenay Grimwood - There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollo

There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.

- Jon Courtenay Grimwood

source: Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.92, Hachette UK

topic: Sadness, Eye, Darkness, Hollowness